Good innit?
After a third attempt, thay are now "seriously looking into the matter and would like to send me a £10 voucher",

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Four wheels move the body - 2 wheels move the soul.

By the 40th attempt you might be chairman of Tesco.

However, if you order this sancerre online, you receive the 2008 vintage, which was bottled ....WHEN. Ha ha..... Yesterday ! to fulfill your bleeding order.

In the Loire, the elevage is finished in January / February of the following year and for leesy versions, it is left longer on the bottom yeasts in inox or even cement tanks. One can only speculate, however, the inox tanks would have had to have been kept cool during the summer months. May be the wine taken away after racking off and fining.

As for what you get, the web site need updating, it's as simple as that.

Another email will earn you another voucher Ba - keep going.

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Duncan

The out-of-focus label is 2005
The expanded label date has been brushed out completely
The desciption reads 2006.

Heh!

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I can appreciate that this is a Gosling sancerre, having started one on Saturday night, last night. Lovely nose, quite subtle for an SB - But for me Mr G, that's where the subtlety ended, the wine is bright in the modern style, quite high acidity and a high tone goosegogs middle palate in the MSB guise. Chalk yes, yes - Leesy ? Not in my burg blanc book.
Not a ripe style, and I think the wine should be enjoyed and stocks finished this Summer, do not keep. I say this because the middle and acidity appear to be amplified, and it may tip over.

A good wine all the same - pity we didn't give this a go this time last year. A further several months down the line, and this wine is drinking differently. Tesco were correct in deciding to shift it.

He he......blind.....Clifford Bay '08 was more typical of sub £15 '07 sancerre - It would be fun to do a horizontal shuffle with SB mates and brown paper bags on a sunny afternoon. One CB '08 left and 2 good Sanc's '07s left. I liked the good '07 Sanc's, I believe they were left on the vine a bit longer which suited my style preferences (see Jancis R's 2007 Loire Report),

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Duncan

Revisited this evening .....Tesco Finest Sancerre 2008, The wine survives very well in the fridge overnight, and stiill has that liver salts SB spritz after the main gooseberry hit, and is very nice. So may be it will last a bit longer ? You'd swear it was a well made MSB, as there is little else other than an assertive g.berry with a passion fruit twist

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Duncan

As I say, the 2008 vintage is hanging on. Some bottles will be hanging on better than others. I have had four bottles in the last three weeks and no two were quite the same.

The Sentiers will be more to your taste, MrD and will be in no hurry to be opened.

But I suggest you all open one just to see how nice it is.

I agree with Goose. Huge bottle variance with these. The first I had was exceptional. The second average. This third one somewhere in between (it's quite good).

They have been kept in suspended animation (the cooler) so its more likely any development occured before I got my hands on them. I may get lucky with one of the remaining 3. We'll see.

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